The nearest known exoplanet to Earth, the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, experiences some pretty nasty space weather from its parent…
In a new study, a team of astronomers come to the conclusion that Proxima b will ever be detected making…
A new study conducted with support from NASA considers sending "Water Bears" on the first interstellar voyages instead of humans.
Turns out we were hearing ourselves! Earth can be a noisy place when listening to stars. Late last year, a…
Is there an alien civilization next door? It's...possible(ish). In late 2020, we discovered a signal from the direction of Proxima…
A new international research effort observed a massive solar flare from Proxima Centauri, which indicates (yet again) that its not…
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial…
There’s a powerful scene in the movie “Contact” (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among…
Our closest stellar neighbour is Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf star about 4.2 light years away from us. It's…
Astronomers have discovered another candidate exoplanet orbiting our neighbor, Proxima Centauri. A paper announcing these results was just published in…